Website Rebuild · Book Sales · Storytelling
Swansea Town Rebuild
A memoir’s desktop-only website, rebuilt to sell the book on any phone.
- Based in
- South Wales
- Who it’s for
- Readers across the UK, by post
- The job
- Website Rebuild, Book Sales, Storytelling
- A similar build today
- Get Enquiries, £895
What they needed
Geoff Lewis wrote Building the Iron, a memoir of chasing the diggers round bombed-out Swansea and five years as an apprentice at Ruston Bucyrus in Lincoln. His website hadn’t kept up with the book. It was a fixed desktop page from a drag-and-drop builder: a row of eleven blue links for a menu, outlined lettering over the photos and long justified paragraphs, and no phone layout at all, so on a phone everything shrank to a third of its size. He needed a modern site that sold the book on the first screen and did his stories justice.
What I built
- The book, its price and a Buy button on the first screen, with three magazine reviews right under it
- Nine of Geoff’s stories in his own words, grouped into Swansea and Lincoln
- An “Inside the works” gallery of Ruston Bucyrus photographs, captioned in Geoff’s own lines
- Ordering by PayPal or card, with copies and postage totalled before you pay
- Built for phones first, with Buy the book and Ask Geoff always to hand
Before and after
Built for a desktop. Rebuilt for the phone in your pocket.
A fixed 1,000-pixel page with no phone layout
Designed for phones first, and sharp on any screen
Text shrunk to a third of its size on a phone
Readable at full size, no pinching or zooming
The book was one of eleven blue menu links
The book, the price and Buy on the first screen
Long justified paragraphs, page after page
Nine stories, sorted into Swansea and Lincoln
The magazine reviews tucked away on their own page
Three reviews right under the book
A Buy Now button at the foot of the page
Copies and postage totalled before you pay, by PayPal or card
Before, on a computer
diggerynook.com
Made in a drag-and-drop website builder at a fixed 1,000 pixels wide, with no layout for phones: a phone shrank the whole page to fit.
Want a site like this?
Tell me about your business and I’ll design your new homepage from your own name, photos and words, within one working day. No obligation, no hard sell.